3rd Grade News

The first month of third grade has been a time of learning new routines, meeting new friends, and accepting new responsibilities. We are very proud of the way our students have risen to the challenge! We are really looking forward to all the new learning that will happen this month! Please make sure to check out all of the events happening this month! There are a lot of exciting things to look forward to!

October 3: No School; PTA Spirit Night at We Art Fun

October 4: Interims Distributed

October 18: Professional Day, No School For Students; PTA Spirit Night at Paisano’s Pizza

October 25: Trunk or Treat

October 31: Halloween Parties

Interims for Marking Period 1 are October 4.

Grades are subject to change as we are continuing to assess your child every day. There are some grades that are blank on the progress report. This is due to the fact that some measurement topics are not taught until later on in the quarter or not until later on in the year.

In math, students will continue to learn about the properties of multiplication and division with units of 2-5 and 10. They will then move into learning about place value and problem-solving with units of measure. Students explore measurement using kilograms, grams, liters, milliliters, and intervals of time in minutes. Students begin by learning to tell and write time to the nearest minute using analog and digital clocks.

Students will continue their learning of Unit 2: Animal Classifications. Which focuses on using text features to better understand a non-fiction text. Text features include table of contents, heading, bold print, photos, captions, chart, map, glossary, and diagrams. Students will continue to learn about the five vertebrate groups: fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and birds.

Unit 2: Animal Classification will focus on informational writing. Students will write about the classification of a specific vertebrate from the unit. Students will learn to introduce a topic and provide specific details about that topic while organizing their writing and grouping related information.

Students will investigate the phenomena of forces. This includes balanced and unbalanced forces and magnetic forces. Students will begin to understand that unbalanced forces will cause an object to move and balanced forces will keep it in one place. Students develop their understanding of the phenomenon of forces through modeling balanced and unbalanced forces with different objects. Through these investigations, students will begin to make predictions about patterns of motion.

If your scholar will be absent from school, please send an email to the teacher and the attendance secretary. You may also complete the online student absence form below.